Creating a Floating Cube 3D Stereogram.
I am thrilled to be starting another year of Xara tutorials with a new look for the Xara Xone and these tutorials. This is either the start of year 8 or 9. I lose track. And I am happy to announce that Xara Ltd., has generously agreed to continue their sponsorship of the Xara Xone and these tutorials (Hip, hip, hooray Xara!!!). So when you come to the part of this message about Xara Modules, don't roll your eyes. Be thankful and happy that Xara is making these tutorials and the Xara Xone available to all of us for free.
In Workbook 9 I demonstrated how to create a Stereogram image with floating objects. I also included a hidden 3D Stereogram image I called Volcano and said if there was any interest, I would create a tutorial on creating hidden 3D image Stereograms. About 4 persons responded, which is a lot of interest all things considered, and so that is what this month's tutorial is all about.
You can't beat this?
For a mere $11.95 per month, you can access all the Xara Modules web graphics, photo and text effects (such as the falling snow in the image above). For $119 per year you get a free copy of Webstyle 3. (Christmas 2004 is not that far off. Buy someone a gift—Webstyle 3—and give yourself a terrific package of web effects at the same time!)
The effect I have used to animate the snow person image is appropriately enough called Snow and is one of a bunch of cool effects included in the package for $11.95 per month. Snow is magically applied over the image you specify and is as easy as an effect can be. You need to be connected to the Internet to see the effect as the actual effect lives on the Xara Modules servers and is accessed via an HTML link.
Xara Modules creates a line of script which goes into your HTML page, and which plays the JavaScripted action when your visitor visits your web page. I think you can probably think of at least a dozen creative uses for this and some of the other 8 cool effects.
All modules come with a free 15-day trial period. If you don't like the effect, you don't pay for it (of course you can't use it after 15 days if you don't pay for it). And, I need not remind you who makes these free tutorials free. Eh? (HINT is rhymes with Clara!) and just happens to be the company that makes the best vector graphics software.
So do me and yourself a favor and pay a visit to the Xara Modules site. There is some really cool and fun effects that will add spice to your web site.
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